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Finding space in the sea is a task easier said than done. Every inch of the ocean is dedicated to a specific activity, whether it is economic, social, or environmental. Shipping, fishing, sand, oil and gas extraction, wind parks, and marine protected areas are all competing in a limited space, defined by borders that are not always respected.
Who runs Europe’s farms? In many ways, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy does.
Seven years after the last reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) entered into force, the EU, which has exclusive competence in this area, is yet to succeed in fulfilling its objectives.
It’s no secret – we’re in a climate crisis, and nature is suffering. I am very much aware of this fact; I am a biologist, and I have been working for Natuurpunt, a nature protection NGO, for the past eleven years. And yet, every time I stop and think about it, I am taken aback by the sheer scale of the crisis.
The lack of implementation of the EU Action Plan for reducing the incidental catch of seabirds in fishing gears (EU-POA) has hindered progress, and seabird bycatch in the EU, and by EU vessels fishing outside EU waters, remains a pressing issue.
Over 90 environmental and consumer groups have today appealed to the European Parliament to postpone their judgement on sustainable finance rules that would allow logging and the burning of trees to be counted as green investments.
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration starts on World Environment Day on 5 June. ‘About time too’ many will cry, because nature is in crisis.
Another month, another seabird.
Ariel Brunner, Senior Head of Policy of BirdLife Europe and Central Asia will resume his active engagement as a member of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF).
When I first visited the Berlengas, a group of islands off the coast of Portugal, the state of the local biodiversity was alarming, to say the least.
IEA encourages false climate solutions to produce biomass that ends being burned for energy. But there is no “spare” land left to burn.
Land is a finite resource. Yet growing demands are putting increasingly competing pressures on the world’s land and ecosystems.